Culture of Confidentiality
Clare Perry, the rising star in the Conservative Party and David Cameron’s new advisor on childhood has said some eminently sensible and refreshing things today which will no doubt cause Louise Mensch...
View ArticleProtecting children?
Allison Pearson’s column in yesterday’s Telegraph gives pause for thought if one has children who are attending a mixed-sex school. In the absence of many single-sex state schools, not many people are...
View ArticleCarrot not stick
*Reader discretion advised – this post contains discussion of an adult nature* Fr Tim Finigan has blogged along similar lines to my post of the other day, detailing the type of material that could be...
View ArticleState cooked relationships
I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I am becoming increasingly unnerved by the clamour being made by those in the business of sex education, such as assembled ‘experts’ who are repeatedly...
View ArticleCatholics and sex – business as usual
An unpleasant type of snobbery seems to be pervading certain parts of the internet at the moment, with bloggers such as Protect the Pope coming under fire for their continued and persistent promotion...
View ArticleThe taboo of behaviour change
Most people accept and acknowledge that behaviour is an important factor when it comes to matters of health. Although we cannot change our genetics, certain people are predisposed towards conditions...
View ArticlePut the Sex Back in Sex Ed
blondpidge:It’s rare I re-blog, but YES YES YES!! Finally a feminist who speaks my language and ‘gets it’. I give you the divine Camille… Originally posted on TIME: Fertility is the missing chapter in...
View ArticleThe knots of infertility
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPxL59537e4 This morning, I was invited back on to breakfast television to reprise the argument I made on the programme last year regarding the NICE guidelines which...
View ArticleBecoming like children
A friend suggested that I download the excellent unspoken sermons of George McDonald the other night, when I was casting about for recommendations for free reading material of a political, historical...
View ArticleThe Barbershop metaphor
The story of when I was given sex-education has passed into our family’s folk-lore. I still remember it extremely well. I was in the fourth form, or Year 4 in today’s money, (aged 8 going on 9), when...
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